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A damning cable by one of Britain’s most senior diplomats suggested that
Argentina may have been encouraged to invade the Falklands by US officials.

In his final dispatch as Ambassador in Washington, Sir Nicholas Henderson
named two diplomats who sided with Argentina and may have led its generals
to think they had US support.

Jeane Kirkpatrick, the US Ambassador to the UN, and Thomas Enders, Assistant
Secretary for Latin American Affairs, were most likely responsible, he said,
noting that Mr Enders visited Buenos Aires months before the invasion.